Estee Lauder To Repay Workers For Sick Leave After Probe

Law360 (March 9, 2018, 9:07 PM EST) -- More than 500 part-time employees at Aveda, MAC, Origins and other Estee Lauder brands in Massachusetts will receive back pay in the form of restitution for sick leave that, under state law, should have been compensated but was not, state officials announced Friday.

The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. agreed to pay $90,000 in wages and penalties after state investigators tasked with enforcing labor laws found the global cosmetic brand was skirting Massachusetts’ earned sick time law, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s office said in a news...